But this past April, the Razzie-decorated actor and filmmaker made surprising Hollywood headlines, even for himself, when it was reported that about a dozen actors on Sandler’s Netflix film The Ridiculous 6 picked up and left set because they were so disgusted with the script. The Western comedy’s very first trailer dropped online today. The logline for Ridiculous 6 reads as follows: “When his long-lost outlaw father returns, Tommy “White Knife” Stockburn goes on an adventure-filled journey across the Old West with his five brothers”. Though Sandler appears to be playing it straight in the trailer, the film is intended as a comedy.
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Following the walkout by the actors, Netflix released a statement: “The movie has “ridiculous” in the title for a reason: because it is ridiculous”, it read. It’s a pro-Indian movie.
The film is packed with familiar names such as Keitel, Taylor Lautner, Rob Schneider, Steve Buscemi, Nick Nolte, Terry Crews, Jorge Garcia, Luke Wilson, Will Forte, Whitney Cummings, Danny Trejo, David Spade, Steve Zahn and John Turturro. “So hopefully when people see it – whoever was offended on set and walked out, I hope they realize that, and that’s it. It was kinda taken out of context”.
That’s a pretty incredible cast, but Sandler has worked with a few incredible casts in the past and those movies haven’t turned out too well (Pixels was no slouch in the co-stars department; in that one he worked alongside Brian Cox, Sean Bean, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Monaghan, and Q*bert).
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The Ridiculous Six is available on Netflix from 11 December 2015.
